Storyline is above all a teaching method or more correctly how a teacher should approach subjects during the topic work. It is necessary to make the beginning interesting and exciting so the pupils are willing to continue. The main point is that each pupil feels he or she is a part of the story. As important as to know the pupil’s background knowledge is to find out what they don’t know and start teaching from that point.
To plan a story, the teacher asks these questions to herself/himself:
‘What is the story?’(Idea)
‘How much time one we going to use?’ (Time)
‘Which key questions Show the main points?’ (Key questions)
‘How do we begin our storyline?’ (Start)
‘Which happenings do we put in?’ (Happenings)
‘Which activities should be used?’ (Activities)
‘What are the pupils going to produce and present?’ (Documentation)
‘How do we finish the story?’ (Ending)
‘How do we evaluate?’ (Evaluation)
Key questions take the most important place in this method. Key questions are open questions which can not be answered with ‘yes’, ‘no’ or ‘don’t know’ more like ‘how do you think that…? How would you wish that …?’ the pupils can make their own key questions throughout the work. Creative Works can be visualizing. Teachers make the story possible to involve new points of action or to change environment and perspective.
